Confessions of a Guild Leader: There’s no I in Team
Leading a guild with over 400 characters and over 100 unique accounts is a royal pain in the ass. Not that I’m complaining or anything.
But a lot of coordination has fallen to me over the years. Placing players into raid groups, coordinating schedules, listening to players wants/needs/demands, making the right decisions, “Aly we should do this”…. “Aly we shouldn’t do that”… Anything I do as a GL reflects on the guild as a whole. Anything I don’t do….(cue Marcia Brady voice) It’s been Aly, Aly, ALY! What happens when a guild leader needs a break? Take one? See if there’s a guild to come back to? For the record, the longest “break” I ever took was about 2 weeks when I moved across the country. And then I moved back again without taking another break. I’ve played this game since 2007 and never missed a tier since. I’m probably second in the running of Iron Man behind Mavros. Seriously, that dude doesn’t even sleep.
But I’m a control freak. I didn’t really quite realize it until I was forced to share the control with the rest of the guild’s leaders. I realized how much I used the pronoun “I” instead of “we” when talking about leading the guild. I realized that if I didn’t agree with what others wanted to do, we ended up just not doing it. I realized that if I wanted to do something badly enough, without everyone else on board, they would reluctantly support me and we would end up forcing it with disastrous consequences (ahem, starting MOP with 4 raid teams anyone?). I realized that I had to work with MT’s officers, not against them by trying to force them to work with me. I realized Star only wanted what’s best for the guild and was not afraid to stand up for it and convinced me I was wrong. I realized that’s one of the reasons why she’s my best friend in the whole wide world of warcraft.
So now we’re a team. A real team. Star, Reluu and I. We’re all equals in leading MT. To affirm this, we created a baby druid named “alystarreluu” (of COURSE it has to be a druid!) to occupy the default “Guild Master” rank. And no, I’ll never tell whose toon it actually is. The three of us now share a new rank that we called “Guild Mistress”, because after all, chicks rule.
Aly, we love you hun! Here’s to the new start for all of us! May MT live long and prosper!
i wont rest until there is a wiener present in the leadership rank!
Well you never sleep anyway so keep on not resting! 😛
I’m with moistette here…. we need a man to lead this place for sure.
Luckily for these girls and probably the guild I stepped down this winter…. or you’d prob see a lot more wall of texts “another crix post ”
So it looks like it’s up to yakkiti yak and moist mavros to do it….
not another crix post! /eyeroll
I mean uh… ahem… crixdaddy? do we really want reluu’s sexual pet names for you to be introduced to society as a whole? 😛
LOL 🙂 Look…. I personally don’t care.. I’ve got nothing to hide. She’s the one that doesn’t want to share me 😉
OOOH, I can’t help not wanting to share! Who would want to share something/someone so amazing 😛
Yay MT! *throws confetti* 😀